With the collaboration of:
The iFEST’08 exhibition is an opportunity to see, feel and try out some innovation objects, projects, prototypes and tech demos.
What will you find there?
PLEO
Ugobe
Every Pleo is autonomous. Yes, each one begins life as a newly-hatched baby Camarasaurus, but that’s where predictability ends and individuality begins. Like any creature, Pleo feels hunger and fatigue - offset by powerful urges to explore and be nurtured. He’ll graze, nap and toddle about on his own -when he feels like it! Pleo dinosaur can change his mind and his mood, just as you do.
OLPC (ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD)
Rebecca Allen, Christopher Blizzard (Red Hat), V. Michael Bove, Yves Behar (fuseproject), Walter Bender, Michail Bletsas, Mark Foster, Jacques Gagne (Gecko Design), Mary Lou Jepsen, Nicholas Negroponte, Lisa Strausfeld (Pentagram)
Rebecca Allen, Christopher Blizzard (Red Hat), V. Michael Bove, Yves Behar (fuseproject), Walter Bender, Michail Bletsas, Mark Foster, Jacques Gagne (Gecko Design), Mary Lou Jepsen, Nicholas Negroponte, Lisa Strausfeld (Pentagram).
One Laptop per Child is a project about the transformation of education. It’s about giving children who don’t have the opportunity to learn. So it’s about access, it’s about equity, and it’s about giving the next generation of children in the developing world a bright and open future.
VIDEOGAFAS ARGO CINEMA 2
Welton Electronics Ltd.
The Videogafas Argo Cinema 2 is the first system of portable cinema in the world that allows enjoying of movies in three dimensions. It comes equipped with a reproducer of DVD, especially built, with support to reproduce DVD in 3D more the versatile Videogafas Argo PC/3D with connection to PC and reproduction in 3D.
WHISPER PLUS
CATLIKE
Whisper Plus is a helmet with Technology CES (Crash Energy Splitter) to give importance to the safety. The relation between the nerves and air inlets has been studied so that any impact affects more than one nerve, dividing up the energy of collision among several points and absorbing it in a more effective way.
DIET FLOOR
TAU Ceramics (TAU Advanced) in collaboration with the inventor from Barcelona Pep Torres
Diet Floor is a tile that incorporates a sensor of weight and a microchip that it controls: the time that somebody is on the tile, the hour and the approximate weight of the user. This way, the tile recognizes the tile “it knows” when somebody of specific weight is too much time in front of the fridge out of the hours of the meal or dines, that is, if the person is pricking among hours.
“EL POETA” BANCOS SUIZOS
Alfredo Häberli for BD Barcelona Design
“El Poeta” is one of the five “Bancos Suizos” created by Alfredo Häberli for the company BD Barcelona Design, winner of the Delta ADI-FAD Prize of industrial design 2007. Built of perforated sheet, it is cool in summer and prevents the accumulation of rain besides allowing multiple modalities of use because of its design.
TAEPPEDYR
Barbara Amalie Skovmand Thomsen and Louise Springborg
Tæppedyr is an intelligent carpet that measures and reacts on the level of noise in children daycare centers. Tæppedyr is a carpet where small virtual animals/ghosts move around children when the level of noise is healthy. If the level surpasses more than 35 dB - they disappear.
MOOV
Berg Toys
Moov are 4 vehicles in 1 box so that the children enjoy themselves building and playing. Moov is a tricycle, a car of pedals and a balanzbike for children of 5 at 12 years. Mention of Honor in the “reddot design award 2008″.
E
Postmachina (Paul Geurts, Arjen Sondag, Renato Valdés Olmos)
E is a company combining hardware, software, online and offline services into an incomparable user experience. E consists of a device and an online service. The online service interconnects all major existing social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook or MySpace, and provides a platform for unique, event-based (brand) experiences.
METACOLOR
Ernesto Gismondi
Metacolor is a lamp of the collection “My White Light” of Artemide that it bets for the Sensitive Lighting. It generate a variable white light from a warm light of yellowish tonality (similar in the light of a candle) very cold light of bluish tones up to one (next to the white nuclear) through a remote control incorporating light sources RGB (red + green + blue).
SOLAR FROG
Cebek
Frog with photovoltaic panel that activates its movement thanks to the solar radiation. The frog is a simple way to educate children and adults on the world of the renewable energies through the game.
PEPE CHAIR
Natasha Perkins
Pepe Chair is a toddler chair of Ponoko which is delivered in flat pack. It is easy to assemble in 10 minutes even with little helper at your side. Made of plantation Hoop ply and finished with natural furniture wax. The chair can be viewed as a project that a parent and child can order online, receive and put together.
LIFESAVER BOTTLE
Michael W. Pritchard
The Lifesaver bottle is an innovative water purification device that can remove debris, bacteria and viruses from water utilizing a unique membrane filtration system. It has been designed to help save lives supplying people with clean pathogen-free drinking water.
APC AIRBAG SYSTEM
APC Systems BCN, SL
APC Airbag System is the first airbag of the world for helmets of motorcycles, destined to protect the cervical area and the part of the ridge of the motorcyclist. It is an airbag without physical link, which is activated for radio frequency when it detects the impact.
FLY JUMPER
Alexander Boeck
The Fly Jumpers are two curved strips of metal with integral super-charged springs that you strap to your legs for unique high adrenalin experience. With the Fly Jumpers you can leap and with a bit of practice you could fly over the bonnet of a car or you could jog faster than an Olympic Sprinter.
SOLAR LAMPION
Damian O’Sullivan
The Solar Lampion is a mobile lamp that lights using solar cells the sun’s energy. An aesthetic and mobile alternative to the cheap garden lights that are currently on the market.
SMARTPOINT
Tmtfactory & Fundició Dúctil Benito
Smartpoint is a revolutionary urban furniture design with an LCD screen on it, where all kind of audiovisual and interactive contents, permanently updated, are shown to the citizen in different places of the city.
SHELTER ORIGAMI
Akemi Tahara
Shelter Origami is a prototype for practical solution to emergency causes, build upon the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. The Shelter Origami is intended to solve the urgent need of a refuge after a natural or man-made disaster.
OPTALERTTM
Outerspace design / Sleep diagnostics pty ltd
The ergonomically designed OptalertTM sunglasses feature built-in micro-electronic sensors, which continuously monitor user alertness to provide early warning of drowsiness. Besides its value for drivers, OptalertTM is useful in industry where fatigue and drowsiness may cause injury.
SUTWELL
Hakeem Adebola Lawal & Tina Askholm Lawal
Sutwell is a teat for feeding bottle with two one-way valves that prevent colic and assures hygienic nursing. Sutwell is a remedy to the notorious feeding bottle related diseases, such as cholera other microbial or chemical contamination in the developing nations of Africa, Asia and South America.
SUSTAINABLE DANCE CLUB
Studio Roosegaarde
Sustainable Dance Floor (SDF) is an interactive floor which generates electricity through the movements of the dancing people. The goal of SDF is to introduce sustainability to a large and young audience by making it sexy and profitable.
SEGA “HOMESTAR PROâ€
SegaToys
The HomeStar Pro Home Planetarium is capable of projecting 10.000 stars on any ceiling. It is a toy that the lovers of astronomy or of warm and relaxing atmospheres can enjoy.
USBCELL
Developed by UK based Moixa Energy and designed by British Design duo – Simon Daniel & Chris Wright
USBcell is a standard battery AA that charges up in any device with a port of entry USB. With the USB we won’t need to carry cables, adaptors or travel plugs ever again.
BLUBBERBOT
Jed Berk
Blubber Bots are Do-It-Yourself robotic inflatable that navigate autonomously and intelligently. They are light-seeking helium-filled balloons that graze the landscape in search of light and cell phone signals.
MOTO SOLAR URBANA
SunRed
SunRed is designing an urban and environmentally friendly solar motorcycle, which would eliminate emissions of polluting gases (CO2) as well as decrease noise pollution.
IPOD JACKET
Cooking Lab S.L
Cooked in Barcelona designed a winter jacket that integrates a textile push-button box designed by Sensing Fabrics. This component can control the main functions of Apple´s iPod.
SUDADERA ELECTROLUMINISCENTE COOKING LAB
Cooked by Joan Fabregas
Joan Fabregas used Luminous Fabric by Sensing Fabrics in the hood as well as in the back of the garment. Luminous Fabric incorporates Tricolor LEDs of 500 mW, which uses the technology of Luz to produce thousands of colors.
VOLUMETRIC LIGHT IN COLOR
Joan Fabregas
Dress composed by two pieces carried out in a complete way through the light tissue Luminous Fabric by Sensing Fabrics, to the one that is added to him the multicolored technology of Light LED Rainbow with an automatic program.
VISUAL SEARCH ENGINE
Tomasz Adamek /Javier RodrÃguez/Javier de Prado/ Eduard Bru
Imagine being able to search and retrieve information from objects surrounding you, or instantly share your pictures and videos. The Visual Search Engine allows you to do just that, saving precious time in finding the information you are looking for in Internet.
VFACER
Visual Engineering
Mobile devices have been using for a long time Level 1 security systems, such as PIN code or user-password validation. To improve mobile device security, Visual Engineering has been developing a Level 2 security system using face recognition technology.
FLEX CELL
Flexcell (VHF-Technologies SA)
The Flex Cell is a portable solar panel that charges electronic devices (mobile phones, PDAs, GPS, among many others).
NABAR
Nabar (Stories License of Creative Commons)
Nabar is a storytelling bear. Nabar talks stories in seven languages Catalan, Spanish, French, Euskara, Occitan, Aragonese and English. And you can download the stories via USB.
